Catalogue raisonné des diverses curiosités du cabinet de feu M. Quentin de Lorangere, composé de tableaux originaux des meilleurs maîtres de Flandres, d'une très-nombreuse collection de desseins & d'estampes de toutes les ecoles, de plusieurs atlas & suites de cartes, de quantité de morceaux de topographie, & d'un coquillier fait avec choix ...

by: Gersaint, E. F. (Edme-François), -1750

Publication date: 1744

Topics: Lorangere, Quentin de, Art, Shells, Auctions, Lorangere, Quentin de -- Art collections -- Catalogs, Lorangere, Quentin de -- Natural history collections -- Catalogs, Art -- Private collections -- France -- Paris -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800, Shells -- Catalogs and collections -- France -- Paris -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: A Paris : Chez Jacques Barois ...

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: c.3

"Ces curiosités seront vendues le lundi deuxième Mars 1744. & jours suivans de relevée, dans une des falles des Grands Augustins ..."--T.p. verso

"Table alphabétique" (96 p. at end) includes notes on the artists and their works. There are sketches of the life of Watteau, whom Gersaint knew (p. 172-188), and of Callot (p. 49-57)

Frontispiece etched by Cochin père after Cochin fils

Includes errata (p. [2-3], 2nd sequence of pagination)

Lugt (Catalogues de ventes publiques): 590

No price list

Collector's mark of Defer-Dumesnil at foot of title, c. 1 (Lugt (Marques de collection), 739)

Most lots in Library's c. 1 priced in brown ink

Binding, c. 1: calf over pasteboard; pine gold tooled, with red label: CATALOG / RAISON. Copy 2: old marbled paper over pasteboard, quarter leather; spine label now illegible. Copy 3: modern marbled paper over pasteboard, quarter vellum; spine gold tooled: GERSAINT / CATALOGUE / QUENTIN. Copy 4: modern linen over pasteboard; leather spine label: CABINET / DE / LORANGERE; old spine label mounted inside back cover

Library's c. 2 inscribed on recto of leaf before frontispiece: see other Catalogues or printed lists

Most lots in Library's c. 4 priced in black ink in margins

Place of auction: Paris

xviii, [4], 294, 96 p., [1] leaf of plates : 18 cm. (12mo)

"Ces curiosités seront vendues le lundi deuxième mars 1744. & jours suivans de relevée, dans une des salles des Grands Augustins ..."--T.p. verso

"Table alphabétique" (96 p. at end) includes notes on the artists and their works. There are sketches of the life of Watteau, whom Gersaint knew (p. 172-188), and of Callot (p. 49-57)

Frontispiece etched by Cochin père after Cochin fils

Date of auction: March 2, 1744